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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:27, 28

You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 7:1–9, 25–29, 36–38

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. / But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. / The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 9:27

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 5:1, 2

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, / older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

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Continence: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 14:1, 4, 5

Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads. / These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. / And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

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